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Presumably before any of the voting has happened? Standard procedure for FIFA now, surely.

Like fuck is Lacazette going to come here. he'd have to be fucking mental. We're supposed to spend another 50 million this window, right? I'll be amazed if we spend half that.

I dunno like, I reckon that creative centremid would keep us up. If we get a centreback and a left back as well, we should be fine.

Yeah I have to say like, sometimes I think we've got the shittest club anywhere - but then I remember Aston Villa.

Does Reddit not have a maximum age threshold...?

It can only get better from there though...

Bloody hell... I've seen taxi drivers arguing with people before but that sounds mental. Although I do think some people are just far too high strung on the roads - I mean, the other driver there should really have noticed your kid and toned it down.

Real Madrid have sacked Benitez and appointed Zidane... Not a massive fan of Benitez but Perez is an utter shambles.

Mitrovic definitely feels like one for the future, but I feel as though that's the best we're likely to get here...

I mean, so many of these comments are things others have said about players like Marveaux, who you have habitually defended That said you're not wrong - every time we play well against a good team it proves how little any of these players care about the club (as the performance doesn't hold against anyone outside the top 6).

Our plight aside, Villa are looking beyond woeful... that has to be them down now.

Thanks for that Ant. Agree that a collection across the forum would be better spent on a charity too.

not sure I get the premise there, but Chewbacca is much improved...

It's pretty abject but if they sack him it has to be now, not later on in the season. Either they use this window to give McClaren a chance to save himself, or they get shot now and give someone else the opportunity to have their desired players ignored in favour of cheap French imports. It's only fair. For my two cents I don't think sacking him will change anything really. He's clearly capable of putting a decent team together, and he's inherited an absolute shitshow here, but at the same time he's clearly not about to bring about any positive change on his own. But then, who could? Probably no one, because the growing reality is that it's the players who are not bothering themselves, as we see every time they go up against a team worth playing up to. I also don't think relegation will change anything. I've pretty much given up, in truth.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Sorry. I was pretty tired when I posted that and literally woke up this morning and the first thought I had was that I needed to edit it. Thought I'd got away with it.

Did you not think the bad guy was a bit pathetic? It was a good film but he was a shocking villain. In my opinion at least

Great bday thread this. Happy birthday mate

Not good news at all... I always really liked Pav. 47 is really fucking young for cardiac arrest as well, especially given the shape he's likely in... All the best to him and his family.

That ranking system was utter balls and entirely counter intuitive. I thought the exact same thing as Ant, and it took me a long time to work out why anyone would come up with a system that superfluously created an entire second set of assumptions (i.e. they had an obvious order, which you initially used in order to assign priority, and then abandoned to convey your preference, choosing instead an entirely different ordering system for no reason whatsoever). Even describing it makes no sense

Let's not get carried away like We're easily capable of losing every single one of those...

There's no reason we shouldn't win this but let's be honest lads, we win or lose depending on how arsed our players are. Will they be arsed about Villa? Unlikely... I reckon there'll be some kind of reverting to type from the defence and probably a red card. That said - if we don't play like utter bell ends, and we win, then I think we can reasonably start looking upwards. There's a 4 point gap to make up between us a mid-table but even so, we're pulling the right way.

Holy fuck what is going on in the league this year... Are Chelsea in a relegation fight? Can they survive a relegation fight??

Depends more on his motivation than the financials I reckon. Even if you can get the discount, if you can't be arsed, you're not going to get around to any of it...

Happy Birthday mate!! You deserve a good one, hope you enjoy it